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Publisher's Summary

Seventeen years ago William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway's most notorious criminal cases, the murder of young Cecilia Linde. When it is discovered that evidence was falsified, he is suspended from duty. It looks like a man has been wrongly convicted, and suddenly the media are baying for blood. Wisting, who has spent his life hunting criminals, is now the hunted.

Story

Excellent, thoughtful police procedural

This is one of the best police procedurals that I have read in a while. Good narrator whose voice was well suited to the story. The author (a former policeman) deals honestly with a difficult subject and manages to tell a great story.

Well-crafted police mystery...

This was my first Jorn Lier Horst novel, and I will be reading more of his work. It was also proof that there is plenty of diversity in the Scandinavian branch of the genre. This was a very thoughtful, well paced mystery, sprinkled with sufficient suspense to keep me hooked, and kept me guessing for as long as it meant to.

Horst doesn't delve too deeply into his characters; just enough to make us care about long-time detective William Wisting, and his journalist daughter, Lena, as they struggle to get the the bottom of accusations brought against Wisting of procedural wrong-doing in the 17 year-old conviction of a supposed kidnapper/murderer.

Make no mistake: Wisting is no deeply flawed maverick Harry Hole. In the latter years of a long, up-til-now honorable and distinguished career, baffled and hurt at the accusations, Wisting is suspended. Nonetheless, he doggedly follows deeply ingrained police techniques, helped out by the very inquisitive Lena, and some old friends in the crime business, in his search for answers, hopefully in time to save a newly abducted young woman.

It's interesting to compare this Norwegian novel to police procedurals set in America. We have such a huge crime rate here that a cop would not likely connect a new abduction to a 17 year old crime so easily, but in a country with such a low population (esp. the criminal population), and which sees relatively few abductions and murders, credibility is not at all strained by such a suspicion.

Good Writing and Narration

I am thoroughly enjoying this Norwegian police procedural series with Inspector Detective William Wisting. I was wondering why the writing felt so honest and clever. It makes sense since I discovered the author, Horst, was a former senior investigating detective himself. The step by step process of Wisting's examination of a case that appears to be stacked heavily against him is so satisfying from beginning to end. I especially enjoyed the involvement of Wisting's daughter -- a journalist. This is a series where you don't have to stretch your imagination, but still feel the tenseness of a well paced story. I am looking forward to more listening of this series in the near future. The narration by Saul Reichlin is perfection.

Thoughtful and Well Written

I have enjoyed the characters in many of the books from Scandinavia. Somehow they draw my attention without having to go to extremes. I liked the interplay between the detective and his daughter. Although this is not an intense thriller, it is no less satisfying by the last sentence.

Clever twist

The strength of the book is the plot and believable responses by all the people caught up in a review of a closed case. The weakness is the narrator's inclination to make some ( minor) characters sound juvenile. It really interfered in their credibility.

The Hunting Dogs

Any additional comments?

Nine hours, forty minutes of listening and read by Saul Reichlin. The Hunting Dogs is a modern-day police procedural, centering on righting the wrongs of planted evidence that convicted a man of murder seventeen years ago. The ‘dogs’ referenced in the title aren’t man’s-best-friend-dogs, rather they are the police, doggedly solving a murder. The detective leading the original investigation, William Wisting, is now an elder cop, highly respected. Suspended pending the outcome, he and his journalist daughter dissect old records, chew away at Agatha-Christie-type clues, and search for the bad-guys.<br/><br/>The story has the expected subtly of European prose, quite a bit of text extraneously and verbose. The Hunting Dogs brings to mind a BBC Television who-done-it. The audiobook is well produced, Saul Reichlin does an okay job, female voices included … his British accent fits well with the story.<br/><br/>No explicit sex, no profanity, clean as a whistle. Let teens read. If you enjoy a cozy mystery, Sherlock Holmes stories, etc., you’l like The Hunting Dogs. Enjoy!

#8 of 9, only 6-9 of series in English

It took some sleuthing to find that this book is #8 of 9 in the William Wisting series. Only #6 (Dregs), #7 (Closed for Winter),and this one, #8 (The Hunting Dogs) have been translated into English. #9 (The Caveman) is to be translated into English this year (2015).

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